Blog Posts

Often, people misconstrue and conflate the notion of the originality of an idea with innovation. Innovation doesn’t necessarily lie in the originality of something — it lies in making something accessible in a way like never before. Even the technologies that we believe to be “innovative” came from someone or something else.

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but when it comes to building startups, most people in the valley overcomplicate things so much. Advice is variable. It depends on time, circumstances, the industry, and the makeup of the team building it. Stop asking. Start building.

As I write this blog post, I still sit in disbelief and devastation to wake up to the news that Kobe Bryant had been killed in a helicopter incident, along with his daughter. If you really know me, you understand the impact that Kobe has had in my life ever since I immigrated to the United States at age 11.

My friend @SergeiChestakov and I have been doing research about social isolation, aka loneliness, because we were shocked by how much we felt lonely and "alone" in college when hundreds and thousands of people were around us!